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The Diddakoi (1972)
Kizzy Lovell is a 7-year old gypsy who wanted no part of school because of the derisive cries of her schoolmates. Learning how to accept others' kindness proves as great a trial as the persistent cruelties of her schoolgirl peers, and the learning is not all on Kizzy's side.
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Author(s):
Rumer Godden
Illustrator(s):
Creina Glegg
Asterix the Gaul (1969)
The year is 50 BC, and all of Gaul is occupied except for one small village. How much longer can Asterix, Obelix and their friends resist the Roman Empire?
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Author(s):
René Goscinny
Illustrator(s):
Albert Uderzo
Linnets and Valerians (1964)
Fleeing the threat of boarding schools, the four Linnet children leave their grandmother’s house and find refuge with their uncle and enter a magical kingdom.
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Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Ian Ribbons
Smoky-House (1940)
An exciting tale about dogs and donkeys and smugglers. The British edition has the hyphen.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Walter Hodges
The Little White Horse (1946)
As Maria arrives at Moonacre Manor she catches a glimpse of the little white horse.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Walter Hodges
Dream Days (1931)
Kenneth Grahame’s second volume of memoirs of childhood includes his story
The Reluctant Dragon.
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Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Shepard
The Wind in the Willows (1933)
This was the fourth fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s story of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger and their adventures on the riverbank. The British edition was published in 1931 and had a different dust jacket.
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Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Shepard
Little Toot (1939)
Little Toot the tugboat conquers his fear of rough seas when he single-handedly rescues an ocean liner during a storm.
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Author(s):
Hardie Gramatky
Illustrator(s):
Hardie Gramatky
The Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume One Daily Comics 1924-1927 (2008)
This is the first volume in the reprinting of the complete Little Orphan Annie comic strip and includes the daily strips from 1924-1927 as well as a few atypical Sunday strips that advance the plot.
Author(s):
Harold Gray
Illustrator(s):
Harold Gray
The Little World of Don Camillo (1950)
Stories of a little Italian village in the valley of the Po where the priest Don Camillo battles the communist mayor Peppone.
Author(s):
Giovanni Guareschi
Illustrator(s):
Giovanni Guareschi
The Little Moon Theater (1981)
Jo Jo, Jip and Nicolette traveling about in their caravan presenting plays and granting wishes, are shivering in the winter’s cold until a little old fairy godmother grants their wish.
Author(s):
Irene Haas
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
The Maggie B (1975)
Margaret wants to sail for a day in a boat named for her with someone nice for company.
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Author(s):
Irene Haas
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
The Story of Pancho and the Bull with the Crooked Tail (1942)
Pancho captures the wild bull with the crooked tail and earns the reward of a silver mounted saddle, a purse of gold, and the biggest hat in all Mexico.
Author(s):
Berta Hader, Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader, Elmer Hader
The Big Snow (1948)
The woodland animals were all getting ready for the winter. Geese flew south, rabbits and deer grew thick warm coats, and the raccoons and chipmunks lay down for a long winter nap. It was a sure sign that the big snow was on its way. The authors feature in this winter story.
Author(s):
Berta Hader, Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader, Elmer Hader
The Last of the Peterkins with Others of Their Kin (1886)
In these further adventures of a muddleheaded family, the Lady from Philadelphia again comes to their aid.
Author(s):
Lucretia Hale
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
The Peterkin Papers (1880)
A collection of nonsense stories about the family of Peterkins who rely on the Lady from Philadelphia to extricate them from their troubles.
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Author(s):
Lucretia Hale
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Men Against the Sea (1934)
Captain William Bligh and eighteen loyal men are cast off in a twenty-three foot open boat by the Bounty mutineers and set out for Coupang in Timor, a journey of more than 3,600 miles.
Author(s):
James Hall, Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Pitcairn’s Island (1934)
Following the mutiny on HMS Bounty, Fletcher Christian along with eight of the Bounty’s crew, six Polynesian men and twelve Polynesian women sail for Pitcairn’s Island where they scuttle the Bounty.
Author(s):
James Hall, Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
Henry Pitz
Mutiny on the Bounty (1932)
Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789.
It has been made into several films and a musical. It was the first of what became “The Bounty Trilogy”, which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn’s Island.
Author(s):
James Hall, Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
Henry Pitz
The Curious Lobster (1936)
The curious lobster is curious about the dry land and travels thither where he meets up with a bear and a badger and has numerous adventures.
Author(s):
Richard Hatch
Illustrator(s):
Marion Wakeman